Skylar's Crush

Chapter 6

  I was at home after camp. I was doing the usual.. sitting on the computer, learning how to edit videos and then I went to the bathroom. I looked in the mirror at my ivory pale skin. No signs of blemishes or scars. What was I so insecure about then? I looked at my stomach and saw no sign of belly fat because I had actually lost weight during the summer. I looked at my hair, and saw straight strawberry blond hair. I looked fine. I wasn't pretty, but I wasn't ugly. I guess I just had something I felt was missing inside of me. Was it my heart? Well.. most probably, but maybe it was because I felt that it was broken. I felt weak and tired. Was it all because of one little crush. It's not like I even knew the boy. Our conversations were about five seconds long if I were lucky. I wish he had known how I really felt, but without me having to tell him. It was so complicated. Part of the time I wanted him to know how I felt and actually have him pay attention to me, and sometimes I felt like I didn't want him to see me at all. I guess I was embarrassed to even stand next to him sometimes because of the butterflies inside of me. I went to the community pool in my colony and saw that they had kids activity night. We were making tie die shirts. I joined in and tried my hardest to forget about Riley, but I STILL COUDN'T BELIEVE THAT MY FIRST CRUSH WOULD BE SO.. SO.. OBSESSIVE!

  I was with my cousin Ryan and we were picking colors to put on the tie dye shirts. I took the blue pigment and accidentally dropped it on my cousin's foot. "Sorry! I'm such a klutz!" I said. "Oh I'll get you back soon." he said. He took a red pigment and squirted it all over me! "Ryan! I gonna kill you!" I said right before I squirted an orange and green pigment on him. "Oh it's on!" he said. He squirted a yellow and black pigment on me and before you know it, ten kids joined along and had a squirting pigment fight. The director of activities came and asked who had started the pigment fight, and all of the kids pointed to Ryan and I. We looked like two rainbow balls who had got in a fight. We looked at  the director of activities, and all of the lifeguards and parents who were around the area and felt extremely embarrassed. "Ryan and Skylar.. I am sorry, but you have to go." she said in a dissapointed voice.  We walked home laughing at how stupid we were. I looked at Ryan as if he were a rainbow candy that I wanted to eat. I guess I was hungry. We got home and went to separate bathrooms to scrub the pigment off our skin. It took pretty long to come off. It was probably one of the longest showers I had ever took. I came out, put on my pj's, grabbed a sandwich, and wen to bed. Finally I got Riley out my head.. well.. for the day.